RHSA-2016:2119-1: Critical: flash-plugin security update

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact ofCritical.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives adetailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVElink(s) in the References section.
The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe FlashPlayer web browser plug-in.This update upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.643.Security Fix(es):* This update fixes one vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player.

This vulnerability,detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin listed in the References section, couldallow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would causeflash-plugin to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive informationwhen the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content.(CVE-2016-7855)RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client)

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